Dorset Waste Partnership - councils working together

What is the Dorset Waste Partnership?

The Dorset Waste Partnership (DWP) was launched in April 2011, bringing together seven Dorset councils in an equal partnership to provide waste, recycling and street cleaning services on the partners' behalf.

The partner councils of the DWP are:

Christchurch Borough Council

Dorset County Council

East Dorset District Council

North Dorset District Council

Purbeck District Council

West Dorset District Council

Weymouth and Portland Borough Council

The DWP is not a separate legal body. It is hosted by one of its partners, Dorset County Council, which employs its staff and provides its support services.

The DWP does not include Bournemouth and Poole unitary councils but it does work closely with them.

Aims and achievements

By 2018/19, the DWP aims to:

Increase Dorset's recycling rate to 68%

Reduce landfill waste to less than 15%

Increase customer satisfaction to more than 80%

Drive down costs by £2m a year

By working together, sharing resources and providing services across boundaries, we can provide high quality services more efficiently and effectively. In its first year the DWP met its savings target of £1.4m.

Recycle for Dorset: A new collection service for Dorset

All of the partner councils in the DWP have agreed to introduce a standardised, county-wide recycling and refuse collection service, called the 'recycle for Dorset' service. The service is being introduced across the county to replace the previous 12 collection systems by 2015.

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